Quotes About Science

You know what a fact is? That's something that has nothing to do with politics.

Neal Stephenson

His job on TV was to explain science to the general public and, as such, to act as a lightning rod for people who could not accept all the things that science implied about their worldview and their way of life, and who showed a kind of harebrained ingenuity in finding ways to refute it.

Neal Stephenson

if money is a science, then it is a dark science, darker than Alchemy. It split away from Natural Philosophy millennia ago

Neal Stephenson

What is BFR?" asked Pete Starling. For the graph's vertical scale was labeled thus. "Bolide Fragmentation Rate

Do you remember the total eclipse of 3680 when we made a camera obscura so we could see it without burning our eyes?" "A box," I recalled, "with a pinhole at one end and a sheet of white paper at the other.

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some manner of cause-and-effect relationship existed between the rise of scientific knowledge and the decline of magic.

That's the thing about space," she said. "So many smart people are so interested in it that it's difficult to come up with a really new idea.

Ivy was the only person awake, her face lit up by her screen. And for the first time in a long time, it looked the way it had used to when she'd been on the track of some fascinating science problem: alive, intent, fiercely joyful.

Her coverall darkens, the colors shimmer through the electropigment like an oil slick, and then it's black.

pro scienta atque sapienta-Latin- for science and wisdom It's a Darwinian popularity contest. at all times, the question on everyone's mind is, who's coolest? Do you want the Spanish Inquisition in here? you better start acting with a little sobriety, or your mother is going to put two and two together

I don't believe in destiny; I just believe in biology, and hotness, and wanting girls.

The power and beauty of physical laws is that they apply everywhere, whether or not you choose to believe in them. In other words, after the laws of physics, everything else is opinion.

When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.

I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, everyone will learn to read) that science literacy is the most important kind of literacy they can take into the 21st century. I would undervalue grades based on knowing things and find ways to reward curiosity. In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world.

Scientific inquiry shouldn't stop just because a reasonable explanation has apparently been found.

The remarkable feature of physical laws is that they apply everywhere, whether or not you choose to believe in them. After the laws of physics, everything else is opinion.

Science is not just about seeing, it's about measuring, preferably with something that's not your own eyes, which are inextricably conjoined with the baggage of your brain. That baggage is more often than not a satchel of preconceived ideas, post-conceived notions, and outright bias.

Science needs the light of free expression to flourish. It depends on the fearless questioning of authority, and the open exchange of ideas.

Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.

In other words, after the laws of physics, everything else is opinion.